ADS-L Digest - 27 Feb 2009 to 28 Feb 2009 (#2009-60)

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:39 AM -0600 3/6/09, Barbara Need wrote:
>On 2 Mar 2009, at 6:56 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>>At 3:23 PM -0500 3/2/09, Ann Burlingham wrote:
>>>
>>>"Morning has broken" by Eleanor Farjeon became a song by Cat Stevens.
>>>
>>Well yes, but it was a song by others decades before that.  I
>>remember hearing an old version on some folk recording or other
>>before the Cat Stevens version, and I see from the wiki entry
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Has_Broken that it was actually
>>a Christian hymn.  In fact according to this entry Farjeon wrote the
>>words to fit a pre-existing "Gaelic tune" which I assume (although
>>the description here isn't definitive) is the same tune (but not the
>>same arrangement) as in the Stevens recording.
>
>Yes, the hymn is in the Unitarian Hymnal (pre-1961) and may be in
>subsequent UU Hymnals. I have sung it often. Same tune.

Ah, exactly.  _Singing the Living Tradition_.  Yes, it's still in
there, from when Cat was a kitty.

LH

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